Diederik Schrijvershof and Leah Peeters have written two blogs for Zorgvisie on the lack of enforcement of the duty of care/procurement duty for insurers by the Dutch Healthcare Authority (NZa). The NZa reported on 2 March 2023 that fines are not a solution in NZa supervision of health insurers’ compliance with the duty of care/procurement duty. The NZa chair of the board repeated this in the Volkskrant newspaper on 21 March 2023.
In the two blogs, Diederik Schrijvershof and Leah Peeters explain why the NZa not only disappoints, but also sends the wrong signal. It is explained in the first blog that the mental healthcare waiting lists have been a general consumer problem for years, in which the NZa was and is obligated to intervene. The second blog explains why the labour market problem is not a reason for the NZa not to enforce the duty of care/procurement duty. Three suggestions are made as to how the NZa can enforce the duty of care/procurement duty quickly and effectively. Click here to read the two blogs together.
Diederik Schrijvershof had previously been interviewed by Zorgvisie about the NZa’s lack of effective supervision of the duty of care of health insurers. The NZa criticised that interview – see here and here. That criticism has been refuted in this blog, in which the NZa is also called on to exercise its existing powers.
Maverick Advocaten has been campaigning for years for more NZa supervision of healthcare contracting (see e.g. here and here), including the enforcement of the duty of care/procurement duty of healthcare insurers (see e.g. here and here).
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